Fredrik Tolf wrote (in a message from Monday 1) > Hi! > > I've been playing around xauth a little just now, and I'm a bit > curious about the 'generate' command. > > I've been able to do about what I want with this command: > > file=`mktemp /tmp/xauthXXXXXX` > xauth -f "$file" generate :0 . untrusted timeout 120 > > However, having to store the cookie to a file and then just fetch it, > transmit it and delete the file again feels a bit awkward. Isn't it > possible to just get the cookie on stdout? Not currently. Since the cookie has to be strored in a file (~/.Xauthority in most cases) anyways, I don't really see that as a problem. If you really need to generate cookies to there are at least 2 solutions : - use some other external program to generate the random bytes and then feed the to xauth add - patch xauth to accept - as a file name for -f to mean stdin/stdout depending on the operation and submit it to our bugzilla :) > > Also, I have some questions about some of the options. Is it possible > to get one-shot cookies? Not currently AFAIK. It would probably be a nice thing to have to enhance the security of the autorisation protocol, probably with some other mechanisms (like a public key based autorization scheme). For now, to secure remote X11 connections, X -nolisten tcp along with ssh tunnels are the best (and easier to set up) way. > Where can I get information about how > application groups work? xc/doc/hardcopy/Xext/AppGroup.PS.gz is the canonical documentation of the extension. I'm not aware of any other docs (beside source code). Matthieu _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
